Fuck your Men’s Rights Activism

[nomorenomore08]

28. Any belief system can be taken to an unreasonable or unrealistic extreme.

And generally I reject the notion of labeling someone an "extremist" just because one doesn't agree with everything they say.

That Men's Group OP - to which my reaction was mostly something like "So what?" - concerned a very small segment of feminists who could be considered a bit off the deep end, certainly a good deal more extreme than, I would think, anyone on DU. Separatism is part of it, yes, also perhaps a view of men as universally predatory - which, depending on one's particular life experiences (trauma etc.) may be somewhat understandable.

And you have a point here, about how "extremes" - violence, hatred, general inhumanity - are in some ways the norm in our society. It's not implausible to suppose that that would give rise to other, equally extreme ways of thinking in response.

Basically, I realize that there are extremes in every group, and it's not something that keeps me up at night. And I find it honestly laughable how some play up the "scary extreme radfem" thing like it's a genuine threat - like Andrea Dworkin come back from the grave to yell at them, or something...